San, Mali Newswire

Nigerian journalists cannot report the ongoing counter-terrorism war against Boko Haram by multinational forces first-hand because of military authorities' lack of good faith. The leadership of the Nigerian Union of Journalists and Nigerian Guild of Editors told Daily Trust that unlike their counterparts in Niger, Cameroon and Chad who are embedded with their troops in the front lines, the Nigerian journalists had no such opportunity.
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Though information about Boko Haram is hard to verify, the path to brutality began in a strict but utopian Muslim community. A man stands over the rubble of what used to be Boko Haram's mosque in Maiduguri, Nigeria in 2010.
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People pray during a rally against French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, which featured a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad as the cover of its first edition since an attack by Islamist gunmen, in Bamako, Mali, Jan. 16, 2015. A prominent member of the ruling Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism says the government's decision to ban the distribution of the Charlie Hebdo newspaper in the country is to ensure peace and stability in the Muslim dominated West African country.
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